Allan Dwan ( April 3, 1885 – December 28, 1981 ) was a pioneering Canadian-born American motion picture director, producer and screenwriter.

* 1892 – Donald Wills Douglas, Sr., American aviation industrialist ( d. 1981 )

* 1892 – Lowell Thomas, American writer ( d. 1981 )

* 1981 – Robert Earnshaw, Zambian-Welsh footballer

* 1981 – Jeff Faine, American football player and agent

* 1981 – Kari Jobe, American singer and songwriter ( Gateway Worship )

* 1981 – Alex Suarez, American bassist ( Cobra Starship and This Is Ivy League )

* 1981 – The first launch of a Space Shuttle ( Columbia ) takes place-the STS-1 mission.

* 1981 – Nicolás Burdisso, Argentine footballer

* 1981 – Grant Holt, English footballer

* 1981 – Brian Vandborg, Danish cyclist

* 1981 – John O ' Shea, Irish footballer

* 1981 – Emma Pierson, English actress

* 1981 – Kunal Nayyar, Indian-English actor

* 1895 – Andreas Alföldi, Hungarian historian and archaeologist ( d. 1981 )

* 1933 – Joke Smit, Dutch activist and politician ( d. 1981 )

* 1981 – Maxwell Cabelino Andrade, Spanish footballer

* 1981 – Alessandro Gamberini, Italian footballer

* 1981 – Demetria McKinney, American actress

* 1981 – Vitantonio Liuzzi, Italian race car driver

* 1981 – Travie McCoy, American rapper and songwriter ( Gym Class Heroes )

* 1981 – Diána Póth, Hungarian figure skater

* 1981 – Jarvis Hayes, American basketball player

* 1981 – Li Jiawei, Singaporean table tennis player

* 1981 – Claire Dames, American porn actress

* 1981 – Nikki Osborne, Australian actress

In 1981, Non-Linear Systems began designing a personal computer, called KayComp, that would compete with the popular Osborne 1 transportable microcomputer.

Osborne obtained the software in part by offering stock in the new Osborne Computer Corporation, which he founded in January 1981.

The software alone was worth $ 1, 500, but the Osborne 1 sold for $ 1, 795 ; as InfoWorld stated in an April 1981 front-page article on the new computer after listing the bundled software, " In case you think the price printed above was a mistake, we'll repeat it: $ 1795.

The company sold 11, 000 Osborne 1s in the eight months following its July 1981 debut, with 50, 000 more on backorder, although the early units had a 10 to 15 % failure rate.

The Osborne 1, released in 1981, used the Zilog Z80 and weighed.

He was best known for creating the first commercially available portable computer, the Osborne 1, released in April 1981.

The Osborne 1 was the first commercially successful portable microcomputer, released on April 3, 1981 by Osborne Computer Corporation.

Despite its unattractive design and heavy weight — it resembled " a cross between a World War II field radio and a shrunken instrument panel of a DC-3 ", and Felstenstein confessed that carrying two units four blocks to a trade show " nearly pulled my arms out of their sockets "— in the first eight months after April 1981, when the Osborne 1 was announced, the company sold 11, 000 units.

In September 1981, Osborne Computer Company had its first US $ 1 million sales month.

#" Voice Store and Forward for the Automated Office ", a presentation by Lawrence E. Bergeron, Dennis B. Howell and Dean Osborne, Wang Laboratories, Inc., Lowell, Mass., transcribed in " Computer Controlled Voice Message Systems and the Office of the Future ", Professional Program Session Record ( 10 ), Wescon / 81, Electronic Show and Convention, September 15 – 17 September 1981, section 2, pp. 1 – 8.

In 1980 and 1981 Osborne advised the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees on the Cambodian refugee problem.

* A Better Class of Person: An Autobiography: 1929-1956 by John Osborne, pp. 203 – 205 ( hardcover 1981 ; paperback 1982 )

She was elected to the Manitoba legislature for the first time in the 1981 election, representing the riding of Osborne.

In 1981 – 4, he attended the University of Nottingham, where he studied with composer Nigel Osborne, among others.

The name comes from the planned replacement of the Osborne 1, an early personal computer first sold by the Osborne Computer Corporation in 1981.

Lyon's government was defeated in the 1981 election, although Mercier successfully sought re-election in the safe Tory seat of St. Norbert rather than in the marginal Osborne riding.

Felsenstein has been employed at Osborne Computer Corporation from 1981 – 1983, at Interval Research Corporation from 1992 – 2000, and at Pemstar Pacific Consultants from 2001-2005.